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Teapot

No maker's mark

British

Teapot

1715–16

Medium silver
Dimensions 4 1/8 x 7 7/16 x 3 1/2 in. (10.5 x 18.9 x 8.9 cm) Weight: 10.86 oz (307.9 g)
Object Number 1955.188
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

No maker's mark, Teapot, 1715–16, silver. Clark Art Institute, 1955.188

Select Bibliography

Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute. Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute Presents an Exhibition of Silver of the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Robert Sterling Clark Art Institute, 1952. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Fourteen: Old Silver Teapots. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1960. Teahan, John. Irish Silver: From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1984 Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America." Connoisseur 106 (Sept. 1940): 716. Comstock, Helen. "Silver Teapots of the Eighteenth Century: An Antiques Survey." Antiques 82 (September 1962): 270–72. Wees, Beth Carver. English, Irish, and Scottish Silver at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1997.

Provenance

With Peter Guille, Ltd., New York; sold to Robert Sterling Clark, invoice paid 5 October 1937.

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